Example sentences of "[noun] hold by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following revelations about British Gas 's contribution to the destruction of Ecuadorean rainforest [ see ED 48 ] , new information has come to light concerning far larger concessions held by the company in Gabon . |
| 2 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 3 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 4 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 5 | The spare was originally part of the national stock held by the three electricity boards before privatisation and came to Scottish Nuclear during dispersal of that stock in 1990 . |
| 6 | There was a special problem in the fact that castles held by the Lusignan family and particularly by the Counts of Angoulême could at times hinder land communications between the Duke 's three administrative capitals , the old Roman and episcopal cities of Poitiers , Saintes and Bordeaux . |
| 7 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 8 | This means that every £1 held by the bank in cash is capable of supporting total deposits of £10 . |
| 9 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 10 | Such life or death issues are fundamental to our society , and the cases discussed in Chapter Six challenged long-established prerogatives held by the medical profession and by parents and families . |
| 11 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 12 | CACI 's BRANCHPLAN can assist in answering these questions by analysing addresses held by the branch . |
| 13 | All of the foregoing are in accordance with the lists held by the parties . |
| 14 | ‘ An individual shall be entitled ( a ) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense ( i ) to be informed by any data user whether he holds personal data of which that individual is subject , and ( ii ) to access to any such data held by a data user ; and ( b ) where appropriate to have such data corrected or erased . ’ |
| 15 | The Open University is developing two courses which will incorporate socio- economic data held by the Archive ; the first on Family and Community Research in the 19th and 20th Centuries and the second on data analysis . |
| 16 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all right , Shirley , ’ Jenna managed quietly , her eyes held by the dark gaze . |
| 18 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 19 | This envisaged collecting and processing relevant information contained on the payroll tape held by the Data Processing Branch . |
| 20 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 21 | The enormous main door of the house stood open , its metal-lined bulk held by the largest safety-chain he had ever seen . |
| 22 | The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor . |
| 23 | If the exchange rate is kept fixed , the deficit will be financed by a loss of the foreign exchange reserves held by the Bank of England or by overseas borrowing . |
| 24 | The total outflow of some $60 billion was financed by increases in the reserves held by the central banks of the industrial countries . |
| 25 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 26 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 27 | They reasoned that an attitude held by an individual is a unique value on a continuum of possibilities or scale , rather than something which is simply present or absent . |
| 28 | Differences in reward between occupations result from the scarce skill held by the occupational group . |
| 29 | Her eyes drank in the cameo of the small child held by the tall man . |
| 30 | These transactions have reduced the number of blocks held by the Group in the UK from 166 to 122 , whilst increasing the average working interest in the acreage retained from 26 per cent to 29 per cent . |